Northern Health has declared a COVID-19 outbreak on the Inpatient Unit at GR Baker Memorial Hospital in Quesnel.
So far, testing has identified two patients who have tested positive, along with two staff members.
Monitoring and testing are underway to identify any additional cases.
Enhanced outbreak control measures are in place and the health authority is closely monitoring for additional cases.
Some of them include:
- Increased frequency of cleaning and infection control measures
- Enhanced symptom monitoring among all DCDH staff and patients
- Limiting movement of staff and patients between care areas of the hospital
- Restricting to essential visitors only
Health officials will only declare the outbreak over when they are confident that chains of transmission have been stopped.
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